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Ken, who is 5ft 8in, was convicted in 2005 of gross indecency with a boy under 16, an indecent assault of a girl under 16 and another indecent assault of a teenage boy.

Thomas, who is 6ft, has convictions dating back to 1998 for an indecent assault of a girl under the age of 14 and has similar convictions in France.

The twins are also said to have a string of convictions for non-sexual offences. Thomas, who was last seen in Liverpool, is wanted for a recall to prison.

Both brothers are wanted for travelling abroad without telling the authorities of a change of address, an offence under the terms of the sex offenders’ register which carries a five-year jail sentence.

Picturesque: The brothers are said to have posed as builders when they arrived in the tiny village two years ago

Thomas could now face deportation and jail in the UK as could his brother if he is arrested.

A CEOP spokesman said: 'Thomas Parker is in custody in France and the whereabouts of the other brother is still unknown.

'We are still asking people for any information that might lead to Ken Parker's arrest.'

Earlier this week it emerged that the twins, both from Nunneaton, Warwickshire, were soldiers for hire, known as 'dogs of war', who fought in the former Yugoslavia and South Africa.

Their local paper, the Coventry Telegraph, reported back in 1993 how Ken Parker planned to return to Croatia, after being arrested, quizzed by police and thrown out of the country days earlier.

Ken, who was living in Stockingford at the time, told the Telegraph that he and 23 other mercenaries had just completed a mission and were travelling from Bosnia to Zagreb when they were stopped by gunpoint by a terrorist squad.

Their weapons were seized and they were quizzed by the secret police for two days.

They also had to face trial for being in the country illegally before being barred from the country for six months.

It had been the fifth visit by the group - called the Soldiers of Fortune - to take up arms in the name of the Croatian nationals battling against Serb forces, since the conflict started.

But he denied he was a mercenary, insisting: 'I am a freedom fighter.'

His brother Thomas, formerly from Leamington Spa, also fought for the Croatian army on a number of occasions with a organisation called the Rapid Response Group.

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Former 'dogs of war' paedophile twins found hiding in sleepy French village